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Description

Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis
of a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when
processing a crafted revocation response.

Impact summary: The NULL pointer dereference happens on a read which
leads to a crash and a Denial of Service for the affected client application.

CWE: CWE-476: NULL-pointer dereference

Description: A CMP client revoking a certificate has to tell the server which
certificate to revoke, and may do so by supplying a PKCS#10 CSR instead of the
certificate itself or its issuer name and serial number. This is
'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr <file>' on the command line, or
OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with the certificate supplied via
OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR() through the API.

A CSR does not contain the issuer name and serial number of the certificate,
so the client does not send them. A server may optionally name the
certificate it revoked in its response, and the client then compares that
name against what it sent. Having sent neither an issuer name nor a serial
number, it has nothing to compare against, and a server returning a specially
crafted name causes the client to read from a NULL pointer and crash.

The revocation response is checked for valid message protection before
the affected code is reached, so an attacker must be a malicious or
compromised CMP server, or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the
secret used for message protection. Clients that identify the certificate
to be revoked by a certificate or by issuer and serial number rather
than by a PKCS#10 CSR are not affected.

FIPS impact: no
No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol
implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenSSL OpenSSL 4.0.0 – < 4.0.3, 3.6.0 – < 3.6.5, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.9, 3.4.0 – < 3.4.8, 3.0.0 – < 3.0.23 4.0.3

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 openssl 3.6.5-1 —
Debian 13 openssl 3.5.7-1~deb13u3 —
Debian 12 openssl 3.0.22-1~deb12u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.6 USN-8847-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS edk2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16 USN-8847-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.30 USN-8847-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS openssl-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS openssl +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS openssl +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openssl +10 3.5.9-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:74166, RHSA-2026:74162

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.9-1.el10_3 RLSA-2026:98588
Rocky Linux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.9-1.el9_9 RLSA-2026:98484
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 openssl-3 3.5.0-150700.5.53.2 SUSE-SU-2026:4414-1
SLES 15 SP6 openssl-3 3.1.4-150600.5.67.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4419-1
SLES 15 SP5 openssl-3 3.0.8-150500.5.80.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4412-1
SLES 15 SP4 openssl-3 3.0.8-150400.4.101.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4413-1
Show 12 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24245-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 openssl-3 3.1.4-150600.5.67.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4419-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 openssl-3 3.0.8-150500.5.80.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4412-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 openssl-3 3.0.8-150400.4.101.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4413-1
SLES 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24245-1
SLE Micro 6.2 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24188-1
SLE Micro 6.1 openssl-3 3.1.4-slfo.1.1_14.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24273-1
SLE Micro 6.0 openssl-3 3.1.4-159998.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24133-1
SLE Micro 5.4 openssl-3 3.0.8-150400.4.101.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4413-1
SLE Micro 5.3 openssl-3 3.0.8-150400.4.101.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4413-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 openssl-3 3.0.8-150500.5.80.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4412-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 openssl-3 3.0.8-150400.4.101.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4413-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22102-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.21 openssl 3.3.7-r2 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl +5 1:3.5.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2026-3204

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 edk2 20240524git3e722403cd16-21 —
Azure Linux 3 openssl 3.3.7-7 —
Azure Linux 3 qemu +5 No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openssl-4.0 +2 4.0.3-r0 —

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